About Pike Road

Pike Road is a very small town located in the state of Alabama. With a population of 4,986 people and just one neighborhood, Pike Road is the 143rd largest community in Alabama.

Pike Road is neither predominently blue-collar or white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Pike Road is a town of professionals, sales and office workers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pike Road who work in office and administrative support jobs (14.94%), management occupations (11.32%), and sales jobs (11.23%).

Also of interest is that Pike Road has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Pike Road is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Pike Road isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 99.43% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

Being a small town, Pike Road does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Pike Road Information and Demographics

The citizens of Pike Road are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 35.75% of adults in Pike Road have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.

The per capita income in Pike Road in 2000 was $23,521, which is wealthy relative to Alabama, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $94,084 for a family of four.

Pike Road is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pike Road home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Pike Road is White, followed by African-American. Important ancestries of people in Pike Road include German, Irish, English, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Pike Road is English.